The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-11-24
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
A large bomb was found ON the steps of
the St Joseph, Mo-, City hall. Another
was found back of wholesale grocery house.
Both were taken to point above the city on
tho river bank and exploded by the chief of
police. They were of dynamite, and evident
ly constructed by an expert bombmaker.
The local Anarchists number over $50, and
are of the most rabid character, The feel
ing against them is intense.
The postoIice, Schaghticoke, N. Y, was
robbed of $500 worth of postage stamps and
open the safe and smashed everything in the
Office
An application has been made in the ALE
ghany, Pa, county courts, for the appoint
ment of receiver to take charge OF and
wind up the affairs of the Baden Natural Gas
Company. The bill alleges, among other
things, that the company is insolvent and
that its affairs are being run in an unsatis-
factory manner, The indebtedness of the
company is 100000,
1t is reported that two children, while re-
turning from school near High Prairie,
Mimi, were attacked by wolves, and before
assistance could reach them, were devoured.
A few days before a man was pursued and
attacked by wolves in the same vicinity, and
it was only after a long fight that he escaped
Great Efforts arc being made by chess
players throughout the country to raise the
$1,000 which is required to reach the mini
mum fixed by the committee of the proposed
sixth American chess congress, which it is
intended to hold in New York during the
coming year. Over $500 of the amount has
been raised
The buildings of the Cheyenne River In
dian Agency at Fort Bennett have been
burned, with large amount Of coal, hay,
and other supplies for the Indians. Loss,
100000. The fire was set by an Indian i'm
prisoned in the guardhouse.
A scaffold at tho power house of the new
traction railway at Pittsburg, Pa, gave way,
precipitating number of men to the ground.
Two persons were fatally crushed and two
sustained painful injuries.
The steamer Arizona of the Lake Superior
transit line has been burned to the waters
edge. A heavy sea was encountered, and the
boat began rolling heavily, whereupon tank
of acid began leaking and set fire to the
steamer Nothing could be done to put out
the flames. No lives were lost. The Arizona
was freight boat, valued at about $4,000
Two men have been killed by falling
walls at Syracuse, N. Y.
A Knoxville, Ia, special says: "The sheriff
of Marion county and the marshal of Pleas
antville went out to arrest John Reynolds,
charged with the crime of forgery and OBJ
fused to be arrested and drew a revolver
and shot himself in the forehead, dying in
stantly. The warrant for his arrest had
been telegraphed from Kansas, where he
has wife and several children"
Nearly 200 teegraphers of both sexes en-
ployed by the Baltimore g. Ohio Telegraph
Company in the operating room at Broad
way and Canal streets, New York, have been
notified that their services would not be re-
S,,ira oft tba 1oct IoIr Of thiS month If
is said that the Western Union company was
going to close up the office.
Prof Langley is expected to succeed the
late Prof Baird in the Smithsonian Institu-
ton
The National Base Ball League has voted
to guarantee % per cent on gross receipts,
and recognize the Players Brotherhood
Fire DESTROYED S755, 900 worth of cotton and
cars at Memphis, Tenn.
The Saratoga Hotel at Chicago damaged
$50, 200 by fire; narrow escape of guests leav-
in the burning building at night.
The new fast train made the trip in five
days from New York to San Francisco.
Disastrous forest fires are raging in Ar
kansas and Illinois; people driven from their
| homes.
| The Cincinnati street car strike is settled
and all the men have returned to work.
| The IL Bessemer rail manufacturers of the
country have decided to order general sus-
pension Of work. and it is expected that it
will occur on the 1st Of December. The
cause of this suspension is the unsatisfactory
| condition of the rail market The suspension
will throw an immense number of men out of
employment, not only in the mills but in the
| coke regions.
| Dick Bell, the colored porter engaged in a
store at Lancaster, S. c., stole from the
| desk tin box containing S625. He handed
| it out the back door to William Wallace.
| The two thieves were arrested and given the
choice of being prosecuted or given so lashes
on the bare back. They chose the latter.
An engine and four cars on the New York,
Rutland g. Montreal railroad were thrown
off the track by broken rail- just north OF
Lebanon Springs, N Y. The engine was de-
molished, and the cars are at the bottom OF
steep embankment
The details of the poisoning of dinner
party in Franklin parish, La, by which II
people died from eating the dressing of tur-
key, have already been published. The wife
of Mr.. King, on whose place the poisoning
occurred, and her two daughters have been
arrested as principals. Old man King was
ambushed and shot and killed. The pre-
liminary trial of Mrs King and her daughters
is fixed for the 18th, and the prospect is that
they will all be lynched by the excited neigh
| bors.
The Transcontinental Development Com
pany has been incorporated to obtain various
concessions from the government OF Mexico
for mining purposes, railroad building and
lands for exploration, colonization, etc. it,
capital stock is 800, 900. jesse r. Grant, the
son of the late Gen. Grant, is one of the in
corporators and directors.
A locomotive and IS cars plunged through
a burning bridge near Paducah, KY, on the
10TH falling 65 feet. Two men We're killed
Fireman's leg was broken. The entire
train was burned.
A young man of New York, a German
who was confirmed drunkard took poison
A physician was called. Pay for service:
not being guaranteed he refused to prescribe
and the man died in his presence. Upoi
being questioned he said: Certainly, If ,
man wants to die, let him die"
Rev. Dr. Malcolm Douglass, a pastor vel
known throughout Vermont just deceased a
East Wareham, Mass, left will with quite
a number Of eccentric provisions. Amonl
them was one that his coffin should be
plain pine box, costing, together with under
takers expenses, not over $40. The family
were not to wear mourning, and the mourn
ers were not to stand at the grave with I'm
covered heads if the day of the funeral b.
cold.